Re: Thinkpad X1 Carbon 2017 Gen5 Touchpad Issue - Linux

‎08-16-201708:26 AM

@xclusive: could it be that you have the Alps touchpad installed in your laptop? Your's is working right?

@theehaa: we are getting a little bit closer to figuring out why it's not working on your laptop, at least now we know that you got the same touchpad as I do, I think I need to add some more debug logging to the code so we can pin point why it is still falling back to the PS/2 mode. I will update the thread once I have a new kernel version compiled.

After that IBM engineer came and replaced both the keyboard and touchpad. It took two hours and whole laptop had to be dismantled, but touchpad and trackpoint now work without issues!

Strange thing about the original touchpad was that it had two cables. Replacement ones that came had only one. Engineer said touchpads normally come with a single cable, this was the first time he saw the second cable. In spite of that everything works great so far.